Curried Chicken Salad

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Place the coconut concentrate, warm water, olive oil, garlic cloves and salt in a blender and blend on high for a minute or two, until the sauce thickens.

Let cool for an hour at room temperature – alternately, you can place it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. If you would like to use the sauce in a cold dish, thin with water until the desired consistency is reached.

Notes

Stores well in the refrigerator, but hardens. Let come to room-temperature or warm gently before using.

Mickey Trescott is a cook and one of the bloggers behind Autoimmune Wellness. After recovering from her own struggle with both Celiac and Hashimoto’s disease, adrenal fatigue, and multiple vitamin deficiencies, Mickey started to write about her experience to share with others and help them realize they are not alone in their struggles. She is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner by the Nutritional Therapy Association, and is the author of The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook, a guide and recipe book for the autoimmune protocol, and AIP Batch Cook, a video-based batch cooking program. You also can find her on Instagram.

I made this last night for lunch today and it is SO GOOD! I was worried that the chicken would taste too coconut-y but it’s the perfect flavor combination. And so easy. I put it over mixed greens with the apple cider vinaigrette recipe from the book. THANK YOU!!!

Hello! I am loving your cookbook. I was just needing clarification on what exactly coconut cream is. Is it the cream from the top of a can of coconut, or is it the butter that has all of the oil and meat?

Do you happen to have any suggestions for replacing the coconut? I’ve got Hashimoto’s, adrenal fatigue, leaky gut and who knows what else 😉 I’ve been eating Paleo and only recently I did the gig/iga/ige testing and I’m having reactions to grains, legumes, eggs, nuts, dairy, fish, shellfish, and coconut. Since finding out about the leaky gut and “allergies” I am motivated to moving to AIP, only problem is nightshades are my absolute favorite foods. Trying to brace myself and have a plan 😉 so many things call for coconut…

Coconut is a hard one – lots of people are sensitive to it! If there is a recipe that calls for the oil, just replace with another solid cooking fat, like lard, tallow, or duck fat. Unfortunately I haven’t found a replacement for the creamy dressings – I am experimenting with cauliflower, but it just isn’t the same.

Nightshades are so hard to give up – they are my favorite too! I have realized though, through the process of being on AIP long term that they aren’t worth the pain they cause me.

Good luck, and let me know if you come up with any good substitutions!

I just made the “garlic mayo” with avocado instead of the coconut cream [on Mickey’s suggestion] for the sweet potato fries. It came out like really light & fluffy guacamole. I think it is good with the chicken, and hopefully with this recipe – as that was what I was just thinking about making & hoping it would be a good combination. Good luck!

I am trying this recipe with your sweet potato fries recipe tonight! I can’t wait! I have hashimotos, adrenal fatigue, CFS, and fibro and have been faithful to a ketogenic version of the paleo diet for quite some time. It has helped a lot but hasn’t been enough. Only just today have I discovered AIP and although it’s depressing how many foods I have to give up (I just adore heirloom tomatoes, eggs, and pumpkin seeds! This is going to be tough!), I’m excited to see what results I might gain. I hope I can get my hashimoto’s into remission and finally have some energy again! I’m only 21, and I feel 60 sometimes lol. I hope this is the missing piece to my feeling better. Thank you so much for posting these recipes, I cannot wait to buy your book! Also, if you have the chance, do you have any suggestions on how I can do AIP and keep it ketogenic? I’m trying to eat around 120 grams of healthy fats a day and removing eggs and nuts, seeds, and all forms of dairy may make it a little difficult. (though I notice I tolerate dairy very well, so I may not eliminate it, despite it not being paleo.) I’m guessing upping the amount of coconut products and avocados I consume will help?

Hi Stephanie, To keep the AIP ketogenic, stick with lots of low-carb veggies like carrots, summer squash, broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cucumber, lettuce, olives, celery, radishes, etc prepared with lots of healthy fats. You might want to make some pureed carrot or cauliflower and add lots of coconut oil and have that on hand for a snack. Avocados are awesome! Making sure to include fatty portions of meat is also important. Good luck!

Hi Mickey, I live in Seattle. Where do you find the coconut butter/cream. I tried one from Trader Joes but it was funky. I was trying to make the coconut whip cream like other sites suggest but it turned out awful. Any suggestions?

Hi Rita, I make coconut butter out of shredded coconut flakes in my vitamix. Whole foods has coconut manna made by nutiva which works for coconut butter or cream. I don’t believe I have seen any at Trader Joes.

SO good! Almost through week one of the four week plan. I’m loving all the recipes, and the simplicity of meal planning. I’m cooking for my family of four with two young boys, so I’m multiplying all the quantities by at least four.

Hi Rita, Sweet potatoes are not nightshades, and starch itself is not excluded in the Paleo diet or AIP. That being said, some people react to it, and if that is you I don’t recommend eating it. There is no actual chili spice in my recipe, which is why I put it in quotes–“chili”. Like a chili but not quite. Hope it helps!

Mickey. I love your curried chicken salad along with all of your AIP recipes! When I attempt to make the eggless mayo in the curried chicken salad. It doesn’t come out. It is like liquid and doesn’t form up into the consistency. Can you share your actual product brands that you use and if you think Iay be doing something wrong it making it can you explain how to do it so that I can get it to come out right? A video of it would be helpful too

Hi Christie! It sounds like you are not using coconut concentrate for the mayo, but instead the coconut cream that is at the top of a can of coconut milk. I use Nutiva brand coconut butter (otherwise known as coconut concentrate or manna). Hope it helps!

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